From Richard Edwards of HED Capital Management Dow Jones futures have made a daily-scale top extension (by Tuesday’s close). This comes immediately after the occurrence of ‘divergence’ between two Dow indices pointed out on Monday – a Dow Theory sell signal for equities. The Dow Jones Industrial Average itself has risen, ignoring lurching drops […] Read more »
Gold, the Yen, Upside in Equities and Petroleum Week With Archbridge Capital
In this article Simon Kerr, Publisher of Hedge Fund Insight, has a Q&A session with global macro manager Hakan Kocayusufpasaoglu, CIO of Archbridge Capital. Hedge Fund Insight: You had a good year in 2013, with your macro fund up over 19%. In which asset classes did you make the most money, and how much […] Read more »
Flat US Equities and Falling Yields Could Signal a Change in Markets
By Stewart Richardson, Chief Investment Officer RMG Wealth Management With the exception of last week’s US employment report, the US economic data released in recent weeks has been better than expected. Conventional wisdom would have us believe that if the US economy is improving and the Fed is withdrawing stimulus, then bond yields should definitely […] Read more »
Graphic Of The Day – Legal & General Strategy Views – Japan Over US Equities
From Legal & General Investment Management Current views are summarised in the following table: Read more »
GAM Insight – Hedge Fund Performance in August
From Global Asset Management Asset prices drifted lower on seasonally light volumes during August. Equities and bonds sold off, with the MSCI World index down 2.1% and the Barclays Global Aggregate Bond index down 0.5%, both in US dollar terms. Commodities gained in aggregate, led by energy and precious metals, while wheat and corn declined on […] Read more »